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Mar 23, 2023
This one was almost a "mixed feelings", as I initially wanted to rat the anime a 6/10, but I didn't and here is why...
First of all, all characters are very nicely designed and despite not getting much character development (not that we can squeeze any more development in 12 episodes without hurting the overarching story anyway), they all have their won "flavor" and personality. I like that and combined with the general art style it's a pretty vibrant world with every character being unique and seem to have something more going on with them "behind the scenes". Only Liu didn't fit in all that much,
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since the art style of that character felt like taken from a completely different anime drawn based on a completely different manga by a different artist with a different style.
I also feel like some of the side stories could be explored more, like that part about a nun going under cover that had absolutely no conclusion or real purpose, but again - 12 episodes is really not enough to explore these things. Fortunately the main overarching story arc is pretty consistent from the first to the very last episode and IMO gets a great conclusion that is what got this anime from a mere 6 to an 8 (though it's more a 7,5). It does not try to give everyone a forced happy end like in a crappy Hollywood movie and I really appreciate it a lot.
Finally some technicalities - the sound is fine, music is OK, but the animation sometimes varied from good to meh, depending on the episode and scene.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 22, 2023
As a person who has wasted more time playing MMOs than I would like to admit I have to say this one takes all the fantasy unrealistic BS out of isekai and makes the series just about a bunch of people playing together in another virtual world without any life ending complications, death starting the game or whatever else. They are all fine, living in the real world their normal lives and the anime is just about them gaming together. What a refreshing simplicity that is!
The visuals are amazingly beautiful and the animators did not overdo the whole "UI" thing with absoutely minimal 3D anumated
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menus only rarely popping up on the screen. The comedy is spot on, but if we're talking anout comedy - it's the group chat/forum//reddit thing after each episode that gets me every time. It's funny, it reads like a real discussion online (to a reasonable degree of course). Just make sure to check after end credits because there was at least one that was AFTER the credits and you may miss out on a chuckle.
The story is nothing new. After the first episode I was thinking to myself "Am I watching a new versionof the Shield Hero?", but no, fortunately it was much less cringy and more fun, but then as the MC started to level up (no spoilers) I had another anime flashback thinking to myself "Oh, so this is smore like Reincarnated as a Slime, huh?", but again, as awesome as adventures of Rimuru are, this anime is also not a clone or a remake of that one aither. It's just simple and fun anime about an overpowered MC that in many ways reminds me of how much overpowered One Punch Man was. It sits right in the middle between hardcore gaming isekai, power fantasy and lighthearted comedy. Gotta love it!
Also, the story is there, I'm writing this before I've seen the end of the season, so I can't judge how great or bad the story will end up being. Aftrer the first half of the first season it's one of those "MC randomly gets into trouble and stumbles clumsily into unexpected events" rather than a "smart MC planning everythig out", but iot works perfectly with the comedy here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 20, 2022
The second season of 86 is an absolute gem among many many anime we had in past years. It's serious, it's grim, it handles many interesting and "heavy" topics like PTSD and other war related trauma, loss and mourning.
The general plot is a direct continuation of the previous season and the best way I can think of describing it in a non-spoiler way is an anime fighting the war agains sentient AI that is hard wired to eliminate all of humanity, much like the great war in the Terminator films or ow Zion defends against total annihilation in the Matrix. It's hopeless, the machines never
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seem to end and now they also have a superweapon capable of wiping them out entirely if they don't do something absolutely desperate. As always, there is loss, there are casualties as war never stops taking lives. There seems to be no hope at all for any improvement.
The visual style of this anime, the fight sequences, the enemy design, mecha design and everything else is absolutely amazing, as always. But aside from judging how the anime looks and flows we have to also acknowledge how well the tactical side of the fights and how some of the strategic plans are written. Sure, it's a fantasy world with fantasy tech fighting a fantasy army of sentient brain eating robots, but there is still something that makes the whole thing look pretty believable in terms of military actions, at least on planning elvel, since fights themselves are just a action packed mess that you would expect from a "mecha" (if we can call these "true" mecha) anime.
I love it, I want more!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 20, 2022
After multiple Isekai I've seen in last few years that seemed to spiral slowly towards more or less the same pulp I finally managed to find something fresh in the genre, if we can even call this a "true" isekai, since the action takes place, theoretically, after the whole other world action has ended and the main character returned to the real world. Fortunately that is not the only "fresh part" about it. The show is super funny, enjoyable and makes you want to binge it after the... SECOND episode. It takes a whole episode to get really started, but it gets better with every
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one and I can't wait to see more.
Every watched One Punch Man? This is just as over the top and absurd on so many levels while the main character is just as clueless as Saitama in his world.
Ever seen High Score Girl? The main character is also completely foreign to real life, is totally lost in social interactions and his every action shows how sheltered and isloated from the real world he was even before the other world, which leads to MAAAAAANY hilarious situations.
Visuals are nice, the animation quality is great, the art style reminds me a bit of things like a rough version of Mob Psycho 100 (which fits the awkward comedy style perfectly), even the voice actors cast (I've watched the original with subtitles) seems to be just perfect. All in all it's a very enjoyable watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 20, 2022
This is a typical "slave" hentai with most of the slave things one might expect and more. The first episode is one of those "did that go to far?" episodes where you question yourself for watching it and feel a bit dirty and uneasy after THAT scene. The second episode is way way more "standard" and the action is just typical hentai stuff you may find in any other anime of that category. No real plot twists, no real story, no nothing aside from action from the first to last minute.
On the technical side - The art style is a bit outdated and the
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animation could be done better, since at some points animated elements don't even interact with eachother when the scene is all about them interacting (like the honey part where it should clearly be removed from the skin, but it's like a looped flash animation instead, no spoilers). Voices are below average, which i think somebody already poited out as well. Nothing special at all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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